Bøger af Donnelle McGee

Part elegy, part memoir, part early-stage movie script, Naked takes the reader into a specific time and place from Donnelle McGee's life and connects us to his origins. McGee is a confessional poet for today, unflinching but not distant, self-aware but not self-absorbed. He doesn't shy away from hard terrain; instead, he forces the reader to see what he's seen, feel what he's felt, and mourn what he's lost. Along the way, we all experience the singular exhilaration that stems from beating the odds. McGee's voice is distinctive, his poems are engaging, his story is riveting.

Hey You is as much film as poetry, all wild flashes of light projected upon the body of another human being. This chapbook turns a relationship into a reel, its guts unspooling into what can only be described as true love poems, and by true love I mean a beautiful mess of risk and reliance. Hey You left me aching, asking myself what it means to allow someone else inside. But it also left me with an answer to that question; it means we're alive, and we're here, and someone else is here, too. - Bryan Borland, author of DIG